Berrys Landing, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Grays-Tillman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29922. It stands on Yorkley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hardeeville NW quadrangle.

Berrys Landing within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1920 USGS Hardeeville quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Hardeeville quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Hardeeville quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Hardeeville NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

181 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Berrys Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,062 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 49 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	90
Arson/incendiarism	49
Natural	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020EFFINGHAM004
8 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-EFFINGHAM-013
25 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-EFFINGHAM-017
11 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	24 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 1993	Natural	5.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Groover Landing	4.4 miles	15
Baker Hill	5.5 miles	17
Tillman	5.8 miles	15
Deerfield	6.3 miles	15
New Landing	6.4 miles	17
Tarboro	8.0 miles	17
Myers (historical)	8.7 miles	15
Purysburgh Landing	9.2 miles	17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122565419

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1227866. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.